I'm a homeschooling, gameschooling, food-loving, Jesus-worshiping, wife and mama. I love sharing board game reviews, plus the occasional recipe, craft idea, and book review! I believe that all board games/card games have educational value. Come check out what we play!!!
I reviewed games for Amigo Games before and I've always loved them. (You can check out my past Amigo Games reviews HERE and HERE.) So I was thrilled to try a couple more! The wonderful folks at Amigo were kind enough to send me two fantastic games to try!
First up is Saboteur: The Lost Mines -
The wonderful folks at Synapses Games games were kind enough to send me a couple of games for review. And I'm so glad they did! These games are fantastic for family game nights! Let's check them out!
1.) Incubation - If you have a dragon loving family member, Incubation is the game for you! Become a dragon breeder and make your fortune! This game plays 2-5 players. I love that! As a family of 5, I'm always a little sad when a game only plays 2-4 players. Don't get me wrong. We have plenty of those and enjoy them. But its wonderful to be able to play together as an entire family without anyone having to play on a team!
I'm always looking for fun games to play with my family. And with 3 kids, animal games are very popular in our household! So I was thrilled to review Shady Pets!
Shady Pets is a game for 2 to 5 players, agers 7 and up! In Shady Pets, you're trying to figure out which pets are "shady." (It's similar to Clue.)
I'm just gonna say it. I'm a total sucker for a pretty board game! Colorful games ALWAYS draw me in - like a moth to a flame! But sometimes they turn out to be pretty but not a lot of fun. Boo! Thankfully, Bosk, by Floodgate Games is both incredibly beautiful and tons of fun! Woohoo!
I have a little girl who is OBSESSED with dinosaurs. She dreams of becoming a paleontologist when she grows up. So i'm always on the lookout for dino-themed games! And we own several. One of our favorites is Draftosaurus, by Ankama Games. With its adorable, colorful dino meeples, it's definitely a hit! So when I saw that Ankama had introduced another dinosaur game, I was so excited! Enter Dino Party!
If you follow my blog or my Instagram page, you probably know that I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting games! I'm especially intrigued by games that teach or reinforce educational concepts that aren't easily found in games. Math is an easy concept to reinforce with games. Even if a game isn't billed as "educational," there's probably some sort of math concept that's reinforced by scoring. But music theory isn't an educational concept that I've found in many games. That's why I was so excited to learn about Lord of the Chords: The Geekiest, Punniest Music Theory Card Game!
At the beginning of the year I reviewed several games from Brain Games and Luma Games. My family really enjoyed those - particularly ICECOOL! So I was thrilled to review another couple of games from them!
Pigasus is for ages 7+ and plays 2 to 8 people. In the game, you try to match incorrectly matched animals with their opposites. For example, an animal with a pelican's head and a gorilla's body would match a card with a gorilla's head and a pelican's body. Whoever recognizes the pair of matching cards first will try to grab the "pigasus" toy and
Here's what I love:
1.) The pig! - Seriously! How cute is this little pig with wings?!? And when you squeeze it it makes a grunting pig noise!
At the beginning of this year I reviewed an INCREDIBLE game called My Little Scythe. My Little Scythe is a junior version of the popular game Scythe, by Stonemaier Games. I'm usually sceptical of junior versions of popular games. It's often just more practical to buy the original version. But My Little Scythe is so fantastic that it completely holds up as its own game! That's why I was so excited to find out that they'd produced an expansion - Pie In The Sky!
